Celebrity Gossips - Angelina Jolie Biography

Celebrity Gossips:- Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Los Angeles. Her father is the Conservatory award-winning actor Jon Voight and her mother is an actress and model Marcheline Bertrand. Angelina can say she was destined to become an actress. When I was little I had a small role in his father's film Looking to exit. Unfortunately for her, her parents divorced and Angelina moved to New York with her mother. A few years later his mother returned to Los Angeles.

Angelina has enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Here she studied until two years later dropped out. Angelina showed signs of destructive behavior. He was only fourteen when he began to live with her boyfriend, and the performance of S & M sexual behavior. She and her boyfriend could use a knife and cut one another during sex. The Relationship ended two years later and Angelina just came to her senses.

High School was the next step for Angelina. She went to Beverly Hill High school. Her problems worsened when she was teased by fellow students for having braces and being too skinny. Angelina tried her hand at modeling but was rejected because of her looks. Her parents being separated, Angelina lived in poverty, she had to buy second hand clothes and could not enjoy luxuries her fellow high school students were enjoying. But Angelina was determined and concentrated on acting. She landed a few roles in plays. She used her father’s method of acting by observing people she was to play. Her looks had also improved by that time, her braces were gone and she had started to look better. This helped her in landing a few modeling jobs and work in some music videos. She had starred in her brother’s student films, which probably got her noticed.

She landed her first role; a small budget movie called Cyborg II, and then came Hackers. Here she met co-star Jonny Lee Miller and fell in love with him. They got married soon. After a few non happening movies, she finally got a challenging role. She got to play Cornelia Wallace in the biopic George Wallace. She won a Golden Globe award for her efforts. She then followed it up with another riveting performance in Gia. The movie was about a model named Gia Carangi, whose life was full of sex, drugs and scandals. She died at the age of 26 of AIDS, becoming one of the first celebrities to die of the disease.

Basking in the success of Gia, Angelina landed a role opposite Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999). She held her own against the seasoned actor and gave a good performance. Unfortunately the film was a critical failure but Angelina quickly moved on. During this time she had divorced from Miller stating that they were too young to be married. Her next movie was Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton. She fell for Billy Bob, who was twenty years senior to her. They started dating and soon got married. Angelina was Billy’s fifth wife. The couple was a tabloid favorite, always indulging in public display of affection. They even wore vials containing each other’s blood around their necks. This marriage too did not last long, they divorced three years later.

After Pushing Tin her next big release was Girl, Interrupted. Here she played a fellow psychiatric patient with Wynona Ryder. She had struck gold, the movie was a hit and Angelina swept away all the supporting actor awards that year, including the prestigious Oscar Award. She followed it up with the crowd favorite Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), though a far cry from her role in Girl, Interrupted, she said it was a welcome change.
Angelina was then offered the role of Lara Croft in Lara croft: Tomb Raider (2001). She was hesitant at first but then the challenge of doing an English accent and fight training lured her in. The film was a major hit and a success worldwide. Angelina was now an international movie star. She also did the sequel to the movie establishing her as an action star. While filming the first movie some of the parts were filmed in Cambodia. Angelina was touched by the poverty in the country and even adopted her eldest son Maddox from there.

In 2005, Angelina starred in Mr.& Mrs. Smith opposite Brad Pitt. Brad was at the time married to Jennifer Aniston. He divorced her and started dating Angelina. Mr. & Mrs. Smith was a commercial success and Angelina had found Brad. Everything was going great for her. Brad officially became the adopted father of her children.

Her career too was going great she was delivering hits after another. The Good Shepherd (2006), A Mighty Heart and Wanted were all hits. Her next film was the Changeling (2008) directed by Clint Eastwood. She won a lot of critical acclaim and also a few awards. Her last was film was Salt (2010) which was an out an out action film where she played female CIA agent who has been accused of being a spy. This movie too was a box-office hit.

Angelina Jolie has a total of six children, three adopted and three biological partner, Brad Pitt. She is the ambassador to the United Nations and supports several charities. Her next film is The Tourist.

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